title: Parent education for adults with intellectual disability: A review and suggestions for future research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review evaluates research regarding parent education interventions for adults with an intellectual disability (ID).
  
  
  METHODS
  Electronic database and ancestral searches identified 13 studies published between 1994 and 2012. The results of these studies are discussed in relation to (a) participants and settings; (b) general intervention procedures, (c) programmed antecedent stimuli to occasion parent behaviour; (d) targeted behaviours; (e) programmed consequence(s) for parent behaviour; and (f) the presence of generalization and maintenance strategies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the majority of reviewed studies, intervention components lacked operational definitions appropriate for replication and direct observation of child outcomes were often not included as a dependent variable. Also, most interventions did not include steps to promote the generalization of skills to different stimuli or settings although the majority assessed the maintenance of targeted skills.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In consideration of these findings, several relevant areas for future research are proposed.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences , University of Oregon, Clinical Services Building , Eugene , OR , USA and.
authors.forename: Christen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Knowles
authors.affiliation: a Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences , University of Oregon, Clinical Services Building , Eugene , OR , USA and.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Machalicek
authors.affiliation: b Pearl Buck Center , Eugene , OR , USA.
authors.forename: Renée
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van Norman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*
keywords: Cognitive disability; intellectual disability; parent education; parent intervention; parent training